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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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